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The Texas A&M Freshman Drill Team took
irst place overall Saturday in a Tulane Univer
ity drill team competition in New Orleans.
Justin Hood, senior adviser of the drill team,
tid the group won first place in the inspection
nd platoon basic phase, the platoon exhibition
base and the individual exhibition phase.
They won second place in squad basic phase,
ic said. Twenty ROTC drill teams attended the
lompetition.
Tne inspection and platoon basic phase in-
olves three squadrons and their commanding
officers and is judged on basic marching com
mands and weapon drill.
The squad basic phase is the same but involves
only one squadron.
The third phase, platoon exhibition, consists
of blocks of four squadrons, with six cadets in
each and their commanding officers. Squadrons
march in front of judges for seven to nine min
utes. They are graded on complexity, originality
and difficulty.
One cadet performs drills during the individ
ual exhibition phase. John White, a freshman en
vironmental design major from Denton who is in
Squadron 1, won first place.
The drill team travels to competitions
throughout the school year. This competition in
cluded drill teams from Auburn University,
North Georgia University and the University of
Florida at Jacksonville.
“We are proud of them,” Hood said. “They
usually do well at competitions.”
Upperclassmen were members of other drill
teams at the Tulane competition, but the A&M
drill team is made up of freshmen. Hood said
that, for this reason, the drill team should receive
special recognition.
The drill team practices every weekday af
ternoon and on Saturdays.
The team will sponsor a competition March 24
in the Zachry parking lot. Ten teams will attend.
Rodeo sellout
strengthens
city economy
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo offi
cials are pointing to seven sellouts
in an enlarged Astrodome and
record high prices for the grand
champion and reserve champion
steers as proof the city’s economy
is again strong.
"If the rest of the nation had it
in their mind that we were down,
they better have it in their mind
thai Houston is back,” Dan Gattis,
general manager of the livestock
show, said Sunday after winding
up a two-week run.
Gattis said livestock show offi
cials already are preparing for
their next bash, a special rodeo in
July for world leaders arriving in
Houston for the International
Economic Summit hosted by
President Bush.
The just-completed rodeo, in
an Astrodome enlarged in the last
year by 6,736 seats, attracted
/84,483 people, up 9.2 percent
from a year ago. Overall livestock
[show attendance grew to 1.32
pillion, a jump of 6.6 percent.
Seven rodeo performances
opped the 50,000-spectator
itark, including the 55,983 i>eo-
ile Saturday night who jammed
he stadium to set an indoor ro-
eo attendance record.
Class of 1990 casts votes
for senior gift preference
Students may choose from six options this week
By ANDYKEHOE
Of The Battalion Staff
Voting for the senior class gift began Monday and
will continue through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in
the MSC Flagroom and the foyer of the Blocker Build
ing. Only seniors in the Glass of’90 may cast a vote.
Seniors may vote for up to two of the following gifts.
The six choices this year include:
• A new ceremonial mace (a staff with a metal head)
to be used in the graduation ceremony.
• An endowed gift to the Texas A&M Muster. Mus
ter is considered to be an expensive traditon, and
money would be given to cover some of the cost.
• An endowed gift to the Sterling C. Evans Library.
• An endowed opportunity award (scholarships, eli
gibility requirements to be decided later).
• Money to improve the campus lighting, with
money to maintain tne new lighting.
• An environmental memorial donation (a tree plan
ting with a plaque).
Gift suggestions were taken from the senior class and
school administrators. Preliminary research was done
on all suggestions by the Glass of ’90 Gift Committee.
The suggestions were eventually narrowed down to the
remaining six.
“A lot of the gift suggestions were too expensive,”
Kristin Hay, Class of’90 Gift Chair, said. “Also, a lot of
them dealt with the MSC, which is not very accessible
due to construction.”
The senior class gift is paid for by the senior class,
with most of the money coming from Senior Weekend,
the Ring Dance, the Howdy Dance, Senior Bash, pri
vate donations and T-shirt sales.
“All of the money that you make through the year,
you put back into the University in the form of a gift,”
Hay said.
Last year’s senior class gifts were the class ring statue
on display in the MSC Flagroom and an endowment to
“ A
A^ll of the money that you make
through the year, you put back into the
University in the form of a gift.”
Bryan police search
for burglary suspects
Two men “jimmied” the lock of
a Bryan Police Department patrol
car door and stole a moving radar
unit valued at $1,800, according
to a Crime Stoppers report.
The report says the crime oc
curred at 3:20 a.m. Feb. 2 in the
2400 block of Memorial Drive in
Bryan. A witness saw a vehicle
drive slowly through a parking lot
and stop adjacent to a Bryan pa
trol car that was parked for the
night.
The witness observed two men
get out of the vehicle and ap
proach the patrol car. The men
quickly “jimmied” the door locks
and removed the K-band moving
radar unit inside. They drove off
toward Broadmoor Street.
The witness described the sus
pects’ vehicle as a light-colored
two-door car, possibly a Ford Es
cort. Police officials report the ra
dar was a MPHS80 model with
the serial number 82567.
This week the Bryan Police De-
STOPPER
warnm—mm—mm 775-tips
partment and Crime Stoppers
need your help in identifying the
person(s) responsible for this bur
glary. If you have information
that could be helpful, call Crime
Stoppers at 775-TIPS.
When you call, Crime Stoppers
will assign you a special coded
number to protect your identity.
If your call leads to an arrest and
grand jury indictment. Crime
Stoppers will pay you up to
$1,000 in cash.
Crime Stoppers also pays cash
for information on any felony
crime or the location of any
wanted fugitive.
Union seeks alternate
bargain with Greyhound
— Kristin Hay,
Class of ’90 gift chair
the Evans Library.
Other notable senior class gifts include the Eternal
Flame from 1983, the Twelfth Man statue in Kyle Field
from 1980 and the “Welcome to Aggieland” lettering in
Kyle Field from the Class of’88.
Hay said the senior gift usually serves two purposes.
“You want to give something that will benefit the
overall University,” Hay said. “You also want to give
something that will serve as a memento of your class.”
DALLAS (AP) — The union rep
resenting striking Greyhound bus
drivers on Monday asked the com-
E any to return to the bargaining ta
le to end the four-day-old walkout
against the United States’ only na
tionwide bus system.
In another development, sources
speaking on condition of anonymity
said Greyhound Lines Inc; was los
ing some of the drivers it had hired
to replace strikers.
The strike has been marred by vi
olence and vandalism since 6,300
drivers and more than 3,000 office
and maintenance workers walked
out early Friday. Shots have been
fired at buses, and a striking driver
was killed Saturday when he was
crushed by a bus backing up to get
around a picket line.
Union officials on Monday sent a
message to Greyhound Chairman
Fred C. Currey requesting a meeting
with him as soon as possible.
The message asked Currey to con
tact Ed Strait, president of the Amal
gamated Council of Greyhound Lo
cal Unions, or Jim La Sala,
international president of the Amal
gamated Transit Union.
Greyhound spokesman George
Gravley said the company tried but
failed to contact La Sala after receiv
ing the request Monday, and is again
awaiting word from the union.
There have been no formal nego
tiations since talks broke off early
Friday.
Strait met briefly Friday night
with P. Anthony Fannie, Grey
hound’s executive vice president and
chief negotiator.
Union spokesman Jeffrey Nelson
would not say Monday if the drivers
had a revised offer to make to the
company.
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Texas A&M University
Andy and Liza Keene, students at Texas A&M,
talk about their silver Volkswagen GTI's.
"My husband Andy and I bought our first GTI
in Texas and drove directly to Boston. A few days
later we turned around and headed back to
Texas, by way of Arizona. That cross country trip
was all it took. We liked the car so muqh we
decided to buy a second one."
"Volkswagens have a unique feel that no other
cars have," explained Andy. And he should know.
Andy's been racing his GTI on the Autocross
circuit for years and he has a shelf full of trophies
to prove it. When Andy isn't racing, he's
delivering pizzas to A&M students. "I don't know
what's more challenging—racing Autocross or
delivering those pizzas before they get cold."
Together, the Keenes' Volkswagens have
logged over 200,000 miles. They love their GTI's
parked side by side. But we don't know how
much longer they can keep them together. Right
after we took this photo, Andy ran off to look at a
new 1990 Jetta GLI 16V.
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